[sf-lug] linuxmafia.com back online! :-) Re: SF-LUG webmasters & ... Re: linuxmafia.com offline(!?) (SF-LUG list, ...) Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18

Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu
Thu Oct 25 15:49:50 PDT 2018 

And, nice to see linuxmafia.com back online! ... or more
precisely, Internet accessible and again having access to The Internet.
This:
Received: from shell1.rawbw.com ([198.144.192.42] ident=root)
         by linuxmafia.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72)
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is from the first email following that that made it through to me,
so I'm presuming service was restored around or bit before:
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:48:16 -0700
(the backed up email / list mail doesn't necessarily dequeue in
and/or get delivered in FIFO order).

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> To: aaronco36 <aaronco36 at SDF.ORG>, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>,
>         "Rick Moen" <rick at deirdre.net>, sf-lug at linuxmafia.com,
>         "Jim Stockford" <jim at well.com>,
>         "Kim Davalos" <kdavalos at sonic.net>,
>         "Todd Hawley" <celticdm at gmail.com>,
>         "Grant Bowman" <grantbow at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] SF-LUG webmasters & ... Re: linuxmafia.com  
> offline(!?) (SF-LUG	list, ...) Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue  
> 10/23/18
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:02:46 -0700

> Well, ... I did hear that (at least) one of the five having
> suitable access (hint - and someone other than me),
> might make some suitable edits to the SF-LUG web home page
> making some mention of linuxmafia.com status, notably around /
> in connection with the SF-LUG list mention(s) on the SF-LUG home/main
> web page, this A.M. (US/Pacific), at least if linuxmafia.com
> continues to not be Internet accessible this A.M. (at least if/when
> they get around to it and rechecking status).
>
> Additional hints :-) ...:
> $ hostname --fqdn; ls -ld . index.php; pwd -P
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root     sflugwww 4096 Mar 14  2018 .
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sflugwww sflugwww 3902 Jul 18  2016 index.php
> /var/www/www.sf-lug.org
> $ dig +noall +answer +nottl balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. A  
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. AAAA
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. IN   A       198.144.194.238
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. IN   AAAA    2001:470:1f05:19e::2
> $ ip a s | egrep 'inet(|6) (198\.144\.194\.238|2001:470:1f05:19e::2)'
>     inet 198.144.194.238/29 brd 198.144.194.239 scope global eth0
>     inet6 2001:470:1f05:19e::2/64 scope global
> $
>
> Hmmmm... I wonder too, as/so long as it's still php ... could wee bit
> 'o php code automagically update relevant status change?  "Of course"
> longer term is some crontab driven "static" web page, that would
> automagically update specific upcomming/current meeting date
> information ... but such a crontab job could likewise report
> status (or conditionally if list not Internet accessible) ...
> and maybe even for about how long such has persisted from earlier
> checks.  Well, ... on step at a time (and time/priorities ...).
> In any case, I believe crontab driven static for SF-LUG web page
> has been on the agenda / wish/task list for quite a while (and
> fairly high up in the queue).  And yep, ... 5 folks have the
> requisite access ... but I'm not planning to do that task myself
> (I do sufficient SF-LUG IT tasks as it is) ... so, hopin' one
> (or more) of the other 4 will eventually get around to it.
>
>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: SF-LUG webmasters & ... Re: linuxmafia.com offline(!?)  
>> (SF-LUG list, ...) Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:49:34 -0700
>
>> Thanks Rick, for all the updates!
>>
>> And, for SF-LUG, in the meantime,
>> if anyone(s) wanted to (temporarily) update/alter the SF-LUG web site,
>> there are at least 4 persons, in addition to myself, that have the
>> requisite access to do so:
>>
>> # (for login in grantbow jstockford kdavalos thawley; do sudo -l -U  
>> "$login" | sed -ne '/^User /p;/sflugwww/p'; done)
>> User grantbow may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
>>    (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
>> User jstockford may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
>>    (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
>> User kdavalos may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
>>    (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
>> User thawley may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
>>    (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
>> #
>>
>> And, for bit 'bout what it at current says on the web site about the
>> list & related:
>> $ lynx -dump https://www.sf-lug.org/ | egrep -i  
>> '(^|[^a-zA-Z])list([^a-zA-Z]|$)|^   [15]\.'
>>   Members are anyone belonging to the sf-lug mailing list. Anyone
>>   interested in Linux may join the sf-lug mailing list: [1]sf-lug mail
>>   list.
>>   sf-lug mailing list. Postings should include the job title, salary
>>   skills requirements list with company policies and benefits followed by
>>   SF-LUG mailing list is supported courtesy of [5]linuxmafia.com.
>>   1. http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
>>   5. http://linuxmafia.com/
>> $
>>
>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>> Subject: linuxmafia.com offline(!?) (SF-LUG list, ...) Re: SF-LUG  
>>> Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:23:49 -0700
>>
>>> Don't know for sure, but I'd guestimate it may likely be issue
>>> with ISP or routing.
>>>
>>> $ dig +noall +answer +nottl linuxmafia.com. A linuxmafia.com. AAAA
>>> linuxmafia.com.         IN      A       198.144.195.186
>>> $
>>> # traceroute -nT -m 10 -p 80 198.144.195.186
>>> traceroute to 198.144.195.186 (198.144.195.186), 10 hops max, 60  
>>> byte packets
>>> 1  198.144.194.233  13.520 ms  15.674 ms  17.503 ms
>>> 2  * * *
>>> 3  * * *
>>> 4  * * *
>>> 5  * * *
>>> 6  * * *
>>> 7  * * *
>>> 8  * * *
>>> 9  * * *
>>> 10  * * *
>>> #
>>> I believe we're still both on same ISP, so likely issue within ISP,
>>> or some other dependency ... I think lines/circuits/routing have
>>> AT&T dependencies.
>>>
>>> # hostname
>>> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org
>>> # pwd -P
>>> /var/lib/named/etc/bind/master
>>> # fgrep -i ns1.linuxmafia.com sf-lug.org | fgrep @
>>>       IN      NS      ns1.linuxmafia.com.     ; 198.144.195.186  
>>> Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com rick at deirdre.net 1-650-283-7902
>>> #
>>>
>>> I do also have relatively fresh backups of SF-LUG list (mbox) & roster:
>>>
>>> $ ls -ld sf-lug_roster/sf-lug_roster sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>>> -r--r--r-- 1 sflug sflug 72050877 Oct 18 21:31 sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>>> -r-------- 1 sflug sflug     9365 Oct 13 06:32 sf-lug_roster/sf-lug_roster
>>> $ stat sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>>> File: sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>>> Size: 72050877        Blocks: 140880     IO Block: 4096   regular file
>>> Device: fe03h/65027d    Inode: 30232       Links: 1
>>> Access: (0444/-r--r--r--)  Uid: (29774/   sflug)   Gid: (29774/   sflug)
>>> Access: 2018-10-23 06:40:14.358531599 -0700
>>> Modify: 2018-10-18 21:31:01.000000000 -0700
>>> Change: 2018-10-23 06:40:14.622505200 -0700
>>> Birth: -
>>> $
>>>
>>> The mtimes may remain the same if there are no updates (no subsequent
>>> postings nor changes to roster membership).
>>>
>>> I'll update if I hear anything relevant and appropriate to add.
>>>
>>> # traceroute -n -m 10 198.144.195.186
>>> traceroute to 198.144.195.186 (198.144.195.186), 10 hops max, 60  
>>> byte packets
>>> 1  198.144.194.233  111.819 ms  112.212 ms  112.450 ms
>>> 2  * * *
>>> 3  * * *
>>> 4  * * *
>>> 5  * * *
>>> 6  * * *
>>> 7  * * *
>>> 8  * * *
>>> 9  * * *
>>> 10  * * *
>>> #
>>>
>>> And thanks for noticing/mentioning!  :-)
>>>
>>>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>> Subject: Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:56:00 -0700
>>>
>>>> Confirmed ... at least to a first order approximation.
>>>>
>>>> I'll check further when I have time.
>>>>
>>>> I do also have alternative & out-of-band contact info. for Rick Moen.
>>>>
>>>> I should also have quite current backups of the sf-lug list data -
>>>> at least roster and archive, anyway.
>>>>
>>>>> From: aaronco36 <aaronco36 at SDF.ORG>
>>>>> Subject: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:45:33 +0000 (UTC)
>>>>
>>>>> Hey there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Haven't run further diagnostic tests on this myself (yet!),  
>>>>> however the SF-LUG mailing list  
>>>>> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug seems to be  
>>>>> offline as of late this morning and so far this early afternoon.
>>>>> All I did was enter this exact complete mailman URL in my FF  
>>>>> web-browser, and the page eventually times-out with this message:
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>> The connection has timed out
>>>>>
>>>>> The server at linuxmafia.com is taking too long to respond.
>>>>>
>>>>> * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try  
>>>>> again in a few moments.
>>>>> * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computers  
>>>>> network connection.
>>>>> * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or  
>>>>> proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably doesn't help all that much, but a simple 'traceroute  
>>>>> www.linuxmafia.com' reaches whatever firewall or other security  
>>>>> measures that may be at rawbw.net (198.144.192.34).
>>>>> No, am *not* myself going to run diagnostics using DIG and/or  
>>>>> Netmap on this!
>>>>> -A
>>>>>
>>>>> aaronco36 at sdf.org

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